Hi,
I am reconfiguring a basic network in an old church building (thick walls, not much cable access etc). I am wanting to connect up about 8-10 pcs and a couple of printers and photocopiers etc.
At the moment this is achieved by daisy-chained 5-port switches, and i want to simplify it with one 16-port in the main office, one 5-port at the other end of the building, and one wifi access point. DHCP routing and internet are provided by a basic 4-port modem/router.
My question is basically should the two swithes and the wifi acces point each come from a seperate port on the router, or is it better to have just the large switch attached to the router and everything else coming off that?
i.e.
The benefit of 'a' I can see is that if the router packs up all the connected devices will at least have local network access.Code:a) Router/Modem (4-port) -------> 16 Port Switch -------> 5 Port Switch -------> wifi access point or b) Router/Modem (4-port) -------> 16 Port Switch -------> 5 Port Switch -------> wifi access point
The benefit of 'b' might be that there is less traffic on the single port of the router. This may just be an imagined non-problem however!
Any advice/ideas would be useful.


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